“…8,29,31,34) Chordomas are well demarcated from the soft tissue due to the fibrous pseudocapsule, 12,30) but have elusive margins in bone. 12,31) Radiography shows osteolytic lesions in the vertebral body, extension into the adjacent vertebra destroying the intervening disk space, 2,8,13,23,24,33) secondary reactive osteosclerosis 2) (not osteoblastic activity but vertebral collapse 32) ), and characteristic amorphous soft tissue calcifications 2,31,32,34) or ossifications. 2,12,23,30) CT clearly demonstrates ivory vertebral body 30) and paravertebral tumor, 2,12,13,23,25,30) intraspinal extension, 13,23,27) and disc space involvement.…”